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A common specification for Continuous Delivery events
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Artifact Pulled event data model changes to registries #144

Closed afrittoli closed 8 months ago

afrittoli commented 1 year ago

We may need to add to the artifact.pulled event we have today to facilitate the CDEvents adoption by Harbor and other registries - see https://github.com/goharbor/community/pull/229 from more details.

mekhanique commented 12 months ago

Suggest using artifact.quarantined rather than artifact.pulled; quarantined makes clearer that it was related to a security issue IMO.

afrittoli commented 12 months ago

Thanks @mekhanique, the artifact.pulled event is meant to track artifact download events (so a counterpart of the artifac pushed event). We could add a quarantine event too if that's something registries implement.

mekhanique commented 12 months ago

Well, those aren't the same then :-). I'd suggest artifact.downloaded over artifact.pulled in that case; the name is more self explanatory this way.

Re: artifact.quarantined -- Yes, we quarantine malicious versions of dependencies. Having the event allows for a history around the version to be kept (in an event store for records purposes). Leaving the artifact in a local non-resolvable repository also helps to provide further information around downloads, etc. This is highly useful in regulated environments such as med tech. There are a few ways one can "implement" a quarantine system w/ a repository system, but it's not a "first class feature". Some folks use Bytesafe, JFrog Curation as a front end, but naturally those services cost money. A simple (and free-ish) way of doing this is to create a local resolvable repository to which you post a bogus artifact with the same coordinates as the malicious artifact. You then ensure that this local repository is ahead of your remote repo in your resolution order for your virtual repository (i.e. the repo everyone actually resolves things from). This, of course, presumes you're running a local repository service; such as Artifactory, Nexus or the like. It also requires a tool such as Dependency Track or its ilk to create events upon which an action can be based to perform this quarantine process.

I'd like to further point out an approach that I think makes a lot of sense; making auditing a first class citizen. All highly regulated and security concious environments require heavy event logging. Ensuring that all designs take this into account will be of great benefit to users.

e-backmark-ericsson commented 8 months ago

Closed as finished, while some remainders will be handled in #195